AMD Ryzen “Medusa”: Zen 6 will indeed reappear in the AM5 socket 165 comments
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Over the summer of this year, AMD promised socket AM5, released in 2022 along with Ryzen 7000 (Zen 4), “new CPUs by 2027+” and, according to one generally knowledgeable leaker, this will also include processors based on Zen 6 (Medusa). include, the successor to the Zen 5 architecture used by Ryzen 9000.
Statement from a credible fugitive
The statement was made by the X account Kepler_L2, known for speaking very cautiously.
With the release of the first Zen 6 CPUs at the turn of 2026, use on the AM5 socket, which will be supplied with the new CPUs until 2027+, seems obvious, but Techconseil had already highlighted this summer that the socket AM4 will also support Ryzen 5, as was the case last October 5600XT and Ryzen 5 5600T are still getting “new CPUs”, but these CPUs are based on old ones. architectures.
AMD’s AM5 socket is expected to receive new Ryzen processors from at least 2022 to “2027+” (Image: AMD)
Three Zen generations on AM5?
However, Zen 6 on the AM5 socket would be anything but a surprise, because otherwise the socket would have only seen two Zen architectures (Zen 4 “Raphael” and Zen 5 “Granite Ridge”), whereas with AM4 there were at least four (Zen, Zen+, Zen 2 and Zen 3), appearing successively.
AMD has so far only confirmed the code names
AMD had confirmed the codenames Zen 6 and Zen 6c in summer 2024, but had not yet said a word on a date. The desktop Zen 5 was released in August 2024, almost two years after the Zen 4 was first released in September 2022. If you take that as a reference, the Zen 6 would indeed be a candidate for 2026.
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